| adapt | | |
| v. (change) | 1. accommodate, adapt | make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" |
| ~ vary, alter, change | become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" |
| ~ adjust | make correspondent or conformable.; "Adjust your eyes to the darkness" |
| ~ gear, pitch | set the level or character of.; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience" |
| ~ fit | insert or adjust several objects or people.; "Can you fit the toy into the box?"; "This man can't fit himself into our work environment" |
| ~ anglicise, anglicize | make English in appearance.; "She anglicised her name after moving from Paris to London" |
| ~ shoehorn | fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited. |
| ~ tailor, orient | adjust to a specific need or market.; "a magazine oriented towards young people"; "tailor your needs to your surroundings" |
| ~ domesticate, tame | make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans.; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" |
| ~ domesticate, tame, cultivate, naturalise, naturalize | adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" |
| ~ christianize | adapt in the name of Christianity.; "some people want to Christianize ancient pagan sites" |
| ~ naturalise, naturalize | adopt to another place.; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting" |
| ~ electrify, wire | equip for use with electricity.; "electrify an appliance" |
| ~ transcribe | rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended. |
| v. (change) | 2. adapt, adjust, conform | adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions.; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ readjust, readapt | adjust anew.; "After moving back to America, he had to readjust" |
| ~ readapt | adapt anew.; "He readapted himself" |
| ~ assimilate | become similar to one's environment.; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" |
| ~ focalise, focalize, focus | become focussed or come into focus.; "The light focused" |
| ~ acclimate, acclimatise, acclimatize | get used to a certain climate.; "They never acclimatized in Egypt" |
| ~ match | be equal or harmonize.; "The two pieces match" |
| ~ obey | be obedient to. |
| ~ square | cause to match, as of ideas or acts. |
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